Re: Hacking License
Il December 1, 2018 3:57:32 AM UTC, Daniel Hakimi <dan.j.hakimi@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>Why?
Ehm... because no existing license is equivalent?
>This license is only more work for the community to understand
Hopefully this will be a worth investment.
> and incompatible with everything else out there.
Did you read it?
Why should it be incomparable with MIT or BSD?
> What's the upside of using your own license over the GPL?
There are several advantages over GPLv2, GPLv3 and AGPLv3.
To be honest, I thought they were be pretty evident from the text, but feel free to ask if you find something unclear.
Some of the evident advantages over the GNU licenses are:
- no need to trust a central authority upgrades to the license
- no need for CLAs, FLAs or abusable copyright assignment.
- possibility of dual licensing but only if the different distributions exactly match
- no SaaSS loopholes thanks to the wrapping conditions that are still compatible with all the FSF OSI approved licenses and with the Debian guidelines
- clear recognition of users' right to understand the software they interact with
Basically it's a stronger copyleft with way less legalese and in a quarter of the AGPL's length.
There would be a lot more to add here, but I've already spent 6 months to write a license and I can't spend 6 more to write a mail :-)
So I'd really appreciate if you could read it before deciding you don't like it.
Giacomo
>>
>> Hacking License
>> ===============
>>
>> Our Curiosity serves Humanity through Freedom, Candor and Communion.
>>
>> This license grants you the right to hack with us, to learn what we
>ignore
>> and to challenge our assumptions by teaching us what you will learn.
>>
>>
>> 1. Definitions
>> --------------
>>
>> For the purpose of this License:
>>
>> - "License" refers to this License.
>> - "Copyright" means copyright-like laws that apply to other literary
>works.
>> - "Hack" refers to the software, the documentation and the contents
>> distributed under this License.
>> - "Hacker" refers to any Copyright holder of the Hack.
>> - "Human" is every live being with humans among its genetic
>ancestors.
>> - "Application" refers to a set of software exchanging data.
>> - "Runtime" refers to any runtime system, any operating system, any
>> virtual machine and/or any interpreter that is required to run the
>Hack.
>> - "Source" refers to the human-readable form of a software which is
>the
>> most convenient for people to study and modify, and that can be
>used
>> to generate a new identical copy of the software itself.
>> - "User" refers to any human receiving a copy of the Hack or its
>source
>> and/or performing any action permitted by this License.
>> - To "study" a software means to perform any activity that could help
>> the User to deeply understand it, to understand how to modify it or
>to
>> explain its usage and inner working to other Users.
>> - To "copy" means to create an new exact copy of a software, for any
>> purpose and on any medium, even after applying one or more lossless
>> transformations to the software, including, but not limited to,
>> compression or encryption.
>> - To "distribute" means any action that enable a human or
>organization
>> to perform any of the activities permitted by this License.
>> - To "use" a software means to generate a new copy of the software
>from
>> its source, to run it for any purpose, to install it, to interact
>with
>> it through any medium or proxy (even asynchronously), to provide
>data
>> for its input or to consume its output (or any part of it), and/or
>to
>> store and use a Derived Work in place of the software itself.
>> - To "wrap" a software means to integrate it into an Application.
>> The programs that collect, store, transform and/or transfer data
>> for the User or between the User and the Hack are called
>"Wrappers".
>> Wrappers do not include any program or library that Users can find
>in
>> off-the-shelf distributions of the required Runtime, but include
>any
>> modified version of such programs, libraries, Runtime that are
>required
>> to run the Application.
>> The license of a Wrapper is compatible with this License if it
>grants
>> to the Users access to its source and the right to study, copy,
>use,
>> wrap, modify and/or distribute the Wrapper and/or the Application
>> and/or any modified version of them, in any form.
>> - To "modify" a software means to perform any action that would
>require
>> Copyright permission, except for studying, copying, using, wrapping
>> and distributing the software, including, but not limited to, to
>adapt
>> all or part of the software, to translate all or part of it to a
>> different language or form, to create or modify its documentation,
>> to refactor its source, or to combine the software or parts of it
>with
>> other works. The resulting work is called a "Derived Work", whereas
>> "Inspiring Hack" is the original work modified to create it.
>>
>>
>> 2. Grants
>> ---------
>>
>> Permission is hereby granted to any User of the Hack to study, copy,
>> use, wrap, modify and/or distribute the Hack, and to distribute any
>> Derived Work under this License but with a different name and logo.
>>
>> Furthermore, if the Hack is a Derived Work, the Hackers grant to the
>> copyright holders of the Inspiring Hack all rights, title and
>interests
>> in any copyright the Hackers have in the Hack.
>>
>> Finally, a patent License to perform any of the actions permitted
>above
>> is granted to any User under the Hackers' essential patent claims.
>>
>> These grants are free of charge, non-exclusive, valid everywhere in
>the
>> Universe, irrevocable (provided the stated conditions are met),
>> royalty-free and can be transferred to third parties with the Hack,
>> its source or any Derived Work but for no charge.
>>
>> This License does not grant any rights in the names, trade names,
>> trademarks, service marks, or logos of the Hackers, except as
>required
>> for reasonable and customary use in describing the origin of the Hack
>> and reproducing the content of the copyright notice.
>>
>>
>> 3. Conditions
>> -------------
>>
>> The grants provided by this License are subject to the following
>> conditions:
>>
>> 1. The Hackers' copyright notice and this License shall be included
>in
>> all copies or substantial portions of the Hack and of any Derived
>Work.
>> 2. The source of the Hack shall be made available with the Hack
>and/or
>> by other reasonable means to every User, according to this License
>> and without additional constraints or requirements, such as
>further
>> agreements, any royalty or other fee.
>> 3. All Wrappers used to integrate the Hack into an Application shall
>be
>> made available (either with the Hack and/or by other reasonable
>means)
>> to every User under either this License or compatible ones, so
>that
>> Users can modify and/or run the whole Application on their own
>hardware.
>> 4. The tools, dependencies and know-how required to perform any of
>the
>> activities permitted by this License shall be made available to
>the
>> User with the source of the Hack (except for those tools and
>> dependencies that are already available to every User either free
>of
>> charge or in off-the-shelf distributions of the Runtime) and
>without
>> additional constraints or requirements, such as further
>agreements, any
>> royalty or other fee.
>> 5. No restriction or impediment, neither technical, legal or
>otherwise,
>> shall prevent, hinder or inhibit the fruition of the rights
>provided
>> by this License to any User of both the Hack and any Derived Work.
>> 6. No patent infringement litigation claim (excluding counterclaims
>and
>> cross-claims) alleging that all or part of the Hack directly or
>> indirectly infringes a patent shall be initialized by the User.
>> 7. The User has never violated any of the previous conditions.
>> 8. All of these conditions shall be valid and enforceable under the
>> jurisdiction of the User.
>>
>>
>> 4. Termination
>> --------------
>>
>> Failing to comply to the conditions of this License shall
>automatically
>> terminate the grants provided, without affecting other parties who
>have
>> received copies or rights from the User under this License.
>>
>>
>> 5. Severability
>> ---------------
>>
>> The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this License
>does
>> not affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of this
>License.
>> Such provision is to be reformed to the minimum extent necessary to
>make
>> it valid and enforceable.
>>
>>
>> 6. No Warranty and Limitation of Liability
>> ------------------------------------------
>>
>> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
>EXPRESS OR
>> IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
>MERCHANTABILITY,
>> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT
>SHALL THE
>> AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
>OTHER
>> LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
>ARISING
>> FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
>> DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
>>
>>
>> 7. Use and distribution of the Hacking License
>> ----------------------------------------------
>>
>> This version of the Hacking License was written on December 01, 2018.
>>
>> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
>> document, but changing it is not allowed.
>>
>> Copyright (C) 2018 Giacomo Tesio
>>
>>
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